3D Acoustic Guitar Cake

3D Acoustic Guitar Cake

In this tutorial, Serdar will teach you how you can make this realistic acoustic guitar cake yourself. Everything from the staining the woodgrain, modelling the neck and head, attaching the strings and making sure everything is secure. The biggest challenge with this guitar tutorial is to make the neck and the head align with the top surface of the guitar (just like a real one) so that the strings are all perfectly straight and stretched while the head is not touching the board. Chef Yener will show you how to achieve this and much more!

Downloadable Course Material

If you would like to approximately match the size of the artwork in the tutorial, print the downloadable files at 100% size. If you require your artwork to be smaller or larger, just adjust the print size accordingly.

3D Acoustic Guitar Cake Course Material

This PDF contains the actual size blueprints for the guitar cake, as well as actual size templates for the cake, saddle and head of the guitar cake.

Type: .pdf | Size: 2.51 MB

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Track

Duration

Part 1

1:46:44

The Plan

2:16

The Templates

2:10

Tools & Materials

4:11

Recipes & Ingredients

2:06

Shaping the Cake

09:18

Coating the Body with Chocolate

7:18

Final Masking

5:21

Making the Neck

15:56

Making the Small Pastillage Parts

16:51

Making the Scratchplate (Pickguard)

8:47

Coating the Body with Fondant

9:31

Shaping the Body

11:42

Staining the Neck & Saddle

9:02

Part 2

1:06:24

Assembling the Head

6:56

Making the Sound Hole

4:57

Attaching the Neck

4:27

Applying the Varnish to the Body

2:07

Making the Fretboard

17:50

Making the Frets

4:03

Applying the Gold Highlights

3:34

Attaching the Strings

11:50

Attaching the Pickguard

1:24

Attaching the Strap

4:15

Final Touches

4:11

Total Duration

2:53:09

While not everything on this list is absolutely required, these are the things used in this tutorial video. Of course you are welcome to find alternative ways of doing things and we would love to hear if you’ve discovered an easier method or better tool to achieve good results.

Watch the entire tutorial completely and take notes while comparing the tools list to what tools you have available to you.

This is art, and no method or technique is set in stone. This is why we recommend you watch the entire tutorial first before you start gathering all the things in the list above. You may think of ways you might substitute tools or techniques with your own ideas.

39 Comments

Used this tutorial to make a guitar cake for my son’s birthday. First attempt was not bad. Just wondering if there is a list of all the items used to make guitar anywhere? I’m going to be making another one for a friend and live in a small town so will need to order supplies now.

Hi, please click on preparations tab under the video. List of items needed briefly written there. But best thing to do as we always recommend, print out the list and while you watching go through again. Also at the beginning of the video I am showing all the needed items together.Thanks

Thank you,this tutorial is amazing so easy to follow.I have a cake order of acoustic guitar on Feb 25.I can’t wait to make one…hopefully mine turn out as good as yours. Just a question what is the name of the string that you used?

Hi, I am going to be making an electric guitar version of this cake. I want to achieve a light wood (light beech wood) colour on the neck, what colours do you suggest? Do you add water to your colours in the spray bottles? I just have pots of neat food colour. Thanks

Hello master!, thanks for yours tutorial, u’re great!.
I have a problema, i can’t seem to access the guitar tutorial, am i doing something wrong? i try logging out and logging back but the problems is here yet.

thanks for you answer! (and sorry for the bad english i speak spanish =D)

Chef Yener, I am new to your site and thrilled, yet amazed with your works of art! Thank you for offering tutorials to teach others. I am excited to get started on my first acoustical guitar cake. I printed the templates but “Side View pg 2-3” is missing. (Not sure I will need it, but I’d hate to miss something important)

Hi Chef Yener, I would like to attempt this cake but in an electric guitar style for my husband’s 40th Birthday. Using one of his actual guitars, I have cut out a paper template for the guitar body and scratch plate. Would this tutorial give me what I need to be able to make the electric guitar, in particular the intricate details and the neck and head of the guitar? The finish I want to achieve is similar to the green electric guitar you made. Kind regards, Lisa

I think you can convert the shape to the one you looking for . Good thing is you don’t have to make the neck in the air. because electric guitars are thinner. I would like to advice you make your drawing the top and side view . Plan your steps if there is a question mark ask me I let you know..

Thank you for this absolutely totally professional tutorial.That was more than I expected.I will keep buying lessons from you and hopefully one day we will meet in person so I can shake your hand and say thank you. God bless you.

Hello! You’re work and detail to instruction is amazing! Thank you for inspiring and educating up and coming cake artists like myself! I do have a question, I am new to the site, so I’m not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask. I live in a small town in America where certain ingredients in pastillage are not available. Is it possible to use gum paste with 3 days drying time?

There is many occasions you can use gum paste instead pastillage . But for the guitar neck and the bridge you need absoulute hardness thats why pastillage will be the only solution . What is not available in your town?

OMG!!! You are so awesome. I really enjoy this class. You are the best I have seen yet. I’ll always will say it.. love your work, and how you work, so clean. Beautiful Guitar Cake looks so real. I always feel so excited to see the end results. God bless your amazing talent. Thank you. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.